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...Harvard education, however, can and should be so much more than pragmatic. At its core, a liberal arts education ought to ask the why questions that lie buried at the heart of a university, giving direction and purpose to the human quest for knowledge. The original report nodded in this direction by noting that many Harvard students are religious, and often struggle to sort out what they believe. The task force’s latest idea—a vaguely-stated “what it means to be a human being” requirement—seems...
...done right, the new “what it means to be human” requirement actually holds great potential to ameliorate the report’s anti-intellectual pragmatism. The search for truth, meaning, and purpose is something that all students have in common, and this quest belongs at the center of any truly humane education. Sadly, these questions have largely been abandoned by universities, leaving students to search for meaning themselves through chaplaincies, counseling services, and late-night dorm room bull sessions...
...much comedy as biography. Kehlmann writes the men as comically eccentric, sometimes tyrannical and, yet, not wholly unlikable. While Humboldt travels the world, Gauss prefers to journey into the depths of mathematics. Gauss loves women and Humboldt is curiously asexual. But the two contemporaries are united by their fanatical quest to explore the secrets of the universe. Gauss even abandons his new bride at a climactic moment on their wedding night when he has a sudden idea. Kehlmann has an overabundant imagination, but he's also a thorough researcher, which makes this an engrossing, enjoyable mix of fact and fiction...
...different, and one day Singh gets the break of a lifetime: a tip-off about the location of Ganesh Gaitonde, India's most-wanted gangster. By the time Singh gets to him, though, Gaitonde is dead, apparently by his own hand. Now Singh has to find out why-a quest that leads him into a murky labyrinth of pimps, Pakistani agents, Bollywood starlets, new-age gurus and would-be nuclear terrorists. Like the city it's set in, Chandra's epic is sometimes slow moving and occasionally overambitious; but like Bombay, its flaws are outweighed by its virtues. Chief among...
...Mortenson was rescued by residents of Korphe, a remote village high in the Pakistani Himalayas. Grateful for their assistance, Mortenson vowed to build the villagers a school. He returned home to San Francisco, sold everything he owned (including his precious climbing gear), and then embarked on the most arduous quest of his career. Three Cups of Tea, co-written by journalist David Oliver Relin, is the account of Mortenson's extraordinary effort to give a school to Korphe and many other villages in the Taliban heartland. After 13 years in which he has brought 55 schools to Pakistan and Afghanistan...